IPRC News 2007

Published! Kevin Hamilton's Book on High-Resolution Climate Modeling

December 5, 2007
The book High Resolution Numerical Modelling of the Atmosphere and Ocean edited by IPRC's Kevin Hamilton and
his colleague Dr. Wataru Ohfuchi, group leader at the JAMSTEC Earth Simulator Center in Yokohama, Japan, has just been released by Springer
Verlag (read more).

Climate Changes in the Last 1500 Years: Their Impact on Pacific Islands

December 4, 2007
Rapid environmental changes befell the Pacific Islands around A.D. 1300, according to evidence presented at the workshop “Climatic Changes in the Last 1500 Years: Their Impact on Pacific Islands,” recently hosted by the IPRC at the East-West Center. Were these changes caused by climate change or by human activities? (read more in report; in Raising Islands)

IPRC Plans Exchange Program in Climate Research and Training with National Taiwan University

December 3, 2007
An exchange program for both faculty and graduate students is planned between the International Pacific Research Center (IPRC)/Meteorology Department and National Taiwan University (read more in in news releasein Honolulu Advertiser).

Al Gore, the IPCC, and the IPRC

October 17, 2007
IPRC's founding is partly due to a 1997 meeting between then US Vice President Al Gore, this year's Nobel Peace Prize winner, and Japan's Prime Minister Hashimoto. IPRC has contributed in several ways to the IPCC, which shares the Prize (read news release).

Foretelling Future Climate Change: The Scientific Basis

August 12, 2007
IPRC's Shang-Ping Xie gave the keynote speech at the opening of a meeting on the environment, hosted by the Environment Program Office of theAsia Foundation.

Special Issue on "Indian Ocean Climate" Published

July 1, 2007
The American Meteorological Society’s Journal of Climate released the special issue, Indian Ocean Climate, on July 1, 2007. The editor is IPRC's associate researcher
Tommy Jensen. The IPRC hosted the conference leading up to the special issue.
(read more in news release ; News@UH)

MELTDOWN! Understanding Abrupt Climate Changes in the Last Ice Age

June 20, 2007
IPRC's Axel
Timmermann gave a talk at the Bishop Museum Science Cafe on abrupt climate
change. Over 100 people attended the event. For his animations of
climate change on the NOAA "Science on a Sphere"
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for jpg; for pdf. Photos courtesy of IPRC's Yan Du and Gisela Speidel.